Research Of Public Administration Paradigm At Sight Of Communicational Reason

The article has analyzed the basic characteristic research of the traditional public science of administration (mainly take the Wilson's theory of administration and the Weber's theory of bureaucracy as mainstream). Pointed out the traditional public science of administration research pay attention to the instrument reason, has neglected the value reason; merely emphasized one side the institutional Administrative system, has neglected the system and the human nature relations. This caused the research of the public administration to be the long-enduring paradigm crisis in the practice of public administration. Through the introduction and the explanation the post-industry society's language and the social criticism philosophers Habermas' theory of communicational reason, easily to discover this post-industry social the linguistic philosophy has created the context analysis for the public administration research, and to surmount traditional industry civilized instrument reason thought pattern.Take the communicational reason as the paradigm frame of the angle of view reconstruction public administration research, in a sense, broke through the difficult position of the traditional paradigm research. The communicational reason took the intermingled main body of person's social behavior as a characteristic, emphasized the different main body through the language communication, the consultation, the interaction achieves "the mutual recognition", by this way adjusting interpersonal behavior. It has provided the new context foundation for the post-industry society's citizen participation and the democratic theory. The article thought the paradigm characteristic under the angle of view of the communicational reason the public administration is one kind of the democratic administration theory of citizen participation. And the article emphasized the characteristic participation of the practice citizen's in public administration. Through the rational analysis essence of the mechanism participation the citizen in the public administration and the way of practice, obtains the view of participation democratic administration had the feasibility in the post-industry society, is the inevitably choice of the shift realization public administration paradigm. It achieved the value reason and the instrument reason unify. Based on the above the analysis, the article also point out the practical significance of the communicational reason theory to the contemporary China administration reform.